What If We Started Our AI Journey With a Different Premise?

What If We Started Our AI Journey With a Different Premise?

Imagine that an alien intelligence has just arrived.

It can write.
Analyse.
Recognise patterns.
Generate ideas.
Code.
Explain.
Question.
Create.

Would our first question really be:

“Which of my existing tasks can I give it?”

Probably not.

We would be far more curious:

What can it do that I cannot?
What can I do that it cannot?
What can we do together that neither could do alone?
What becomes possible simply because this new intelligence is now available?

Perhaps this is a better way to begin our AI journey.

Don’t ask the alien AI to become human.

Discover what becomes possible together.

But there is another half to this thought:

Don’t become alien while working with it.

As AI becomes embedded in how we learn, work, think, create and decide, we need to explore its possibilities without casually surrendering what we value in ourselves.

Curiosity.
Judgment.
Responsibility.
Empathy.
Purpose.
Human relationships.

So perhaps the premise for our AI journey is surprisingly simple:

Explore the possibilities of another kind of intelligence — while remaining deliberately human.

And perhaps the AI-native question is:

When you begin thinking with an alien intelligence, what must you remember not to forget?

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